Marty and Dave's Newest Addition

Two weekends ago, my mom and dad came down to help us scour the Floyd Fall Craft Festival for handmade treasures. We got a spiffy leather belt, a few Christmas gifts, and had a nice time. My parents found an inspirational sign (this sign is going to inspire my mom to make up her mind about the curtains that will hang on the window the sign is now posted above), very dark applebutter, a pretty necklace, and some other odds and ends. In one particularly crowded section of the fair was a woman selling paintings on behalf of a local art gallery. She also is the "Feline Coordinator of the Floyd County Humane Society." You can just imagine the pictures plastered all over the side of her stall. Every cat featured looked like something out of a calendar. But one kitten was hands down the cutest thing you've ever seen. Mom immediately fell in love. The lady told her that the kitten was, indeed, unclaimed and wouldn't be weened and ready to leave her mother for at least two more weeks. Mom said she'd "think about it" and wandered on. As we were leaving the fair hours later, my dad said "Why don't you go back and see if the kitten's still available? If no one else has claimed it today, we could find a way to get it back to Richmond."

And so, on Saturday, with baby Emma curled in a towel, snug in her cat carrier, we met mom at the halfway mark between Radford and Richmond. She's absolutely adorable and her middle name should be Spunk. She'd only been at my parents' house a day before she pushed Star (their aggressive, moody adult cat) away from her foodbowl and ate Star's food! Marcy and Emma are still feeling each other out. Emma's not afraid of anything and Marcy...well, despite being 8 months older...is. So eventually Marcy's not going to run when the kitten tries to play with her, and until then, my parents are just careful to give both cats tons of love and attention.